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Clark County history: In the fur trade, New Year’s Day was the season’s beloved holiday
In the fur trade, New Year’s Day, not Christmas, was the season’s more beloved holiday. Before Christmas and after New Year’s ...
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The fur trade
In the late 17th century, hundreds of Frenchmen trekked into the wilderness of North America to seek their fortune in the fur trade. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) They left the ...
Cowboy State Daily2d
The American West: A Tale of Two Fur Men
John Jacob Astor's employees experienced many adventures and opportunities in the wilderness of the great Northwest before Astor had to pull out of ...
National Geographic news8y
Why Fur Is Back in Fashion
We were tromping out onto a wetland frozen nine inches deep. It felt like how the fur trade began, someplace long ago, far away. Bill Mackowski, in his 60th year of trapping, mostly around ...
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The Fashion of Fur
The fur trade was based on the barter system and in the late 1700s a blanket was worth seven prime beaver pelts, a gun cost 14 pelts. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) (Underwool is ...
Wyoming News29d
GRHS hosts fur trade history program
GREEN RIVER — In presentations throughout the day for over 100 students attending the Green River High School’s Wyoming History class, mountain men and the fur trade were the topics of a ...